Power transmission control governor



27, 1953 R. L. JAESCHKE 2, 7,3 3 POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL GOVERNOR Filed Sept. 8, 1951 Z-Sh'ee't's-Sheet l IN V EN TOR. RALPH L JAEscHKE BY Mu ab y w ATTORNEYS Oct. 1 R. L. JAEscHKE 2,657,323

POWER TRANSMISSION coN rRoL GOVERNOR Filed Sept. 8, 1951 2 Sheeii-Sheet 2 R 7 INVENTOR. '2 5 78 ALPH L. JAESCHKE a4 Ma p/ 47.

Patented Oct. 27, 1953 POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL GOVERNOR Ralph L. Jaeschke, Keno'sha, Wis., assignor to Dynamatic- Corporation, Kenosha, Wis., a corporation of Delaware Application September 8, 1951, Serial No. 245,757

This invention relate to power transmitting mechanism and more particularly to control means therefor.

Broadly the invention comprehends the pro.- vision or" an electric governor embodying a carbon pile as a basic part thereof, adapted tov be centriiugally operated for controlling current flow to an electromagnetic clutch in which it.- is to be incorporated.

Among the principal objects of this invention are the provision of a centriifugally operated carbon pile governor for electromagnetic eddy current clutches and the like,v that:

1. Has high current carrying capacity;

2. Is free from arcing when, at leastv a torque output is applied to the output of the clutch;

3. Can be easily adjusted;

4. Is compact in structure;

5. Can be easily installed as a part of the mechanism which it is to control;

6. Is completely enclosedand as such free from dirt accumulation; and

7. Has excellent speed holding characteristics for a wide range of speed and load.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following, description taken in connection with the drawings forming a part of the specification, and in which:

. Fig. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional, View of an electromagnetic eddy current clutch embodying an electric governor therein;

Fig. 2. is a fragmentary endelevation. view taken substantially along lines 2--2 of Fig. 1'; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the electric governor incorporated in the structure of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views;- of the drawings.

This electric governor was primarily devised for the purpose of providing a governor which could replace centrifugally operated contact governors without possessing the inherent drawbacks of contact governors. In so providing a governor embodying a carbon pile as a basic element thereof it was possible to provide a compact enclosed structure whichv is free of the shortcomings of contact governors such as arcing, dirt accumulation, difliculty of installation and adjustment, and low current carrying capacity.

The present governor can be. easily incorporated as a part of the mechanism to be con- 4 Claims. (01. 310-95) trolled, wherein in the case of eddy current clutches it is operative to control the flow of current to the coil of the clutch whereby as the output member of the clutch would tend to increase in speed the current to the coil would be decreased and thus account for a control in speed of the output of the clutch to a predetermined figure.

Referring to the drawings for more specific details of the invention I'll represents generally anelectromag-netic eddy current clutch comprising basically a power input or drum member i2, and a power output or rotor member l4 supporting an annular field coil l6 and an electric governor l8 therein.

The drum member l2 includes an annular ring 20, and an end plate 22 fixedly secured thereto having an axially extended hub portion 24 journalled' at its inner periphery upon spaced bearings 26, the bearings which are in turn mounted upon an output shaft 28 of the clutch it. The drum member 12 is adapted to be driven from any suitable power source by way of pulley attachment with sheave 30 formed as a part of end plate 22..

The rotor [14 includes annular members 32 and 34 fixedly secured to one another with an annular opening therebetween within which the coil I6. is received and provide on their external periphery in circumferential-1y spaced relation to. the inner periphery of ring 29 of drum menuber M, interdigitated polar teeth 36. and'38. The member 32 i provided with a hub 40 having keyed: connection with output shaft 28.

Coil i6 is insulated in its mounting upon and between the members 32' and 34 and is connected at. one. end to a suitable. source of current by way of a conductor 42 to a collector ring 44 mounted in insulated relation on member 32, which ring is in turn engaged by a brush. 4%. having current delivered thereto. The opposite end of the coil isconnected by a conductor 48to a terminal connection Sil -0f governor 18.

Governor [8 includes a porcelain or other like suitable material tubular housing 52, a carbon pile 54 consisting of a plurality of like carbon discs 56 fitted for slight reciprocal movement in the housing 52, a carbon cylinder 58', bearing at one axial end upon the carbon pile 54, fitted in a cylindrical weight member 69, made of copper or like heavy material, reciprocally fitted in the housing, and a coil spring 62 bearing at on end upon the member.

The housing with the carbon pile 54; cylinder 58, weight 60 and spring 52 in assembly therein is received in a bore (i l in member 34 extending radially inwardly from open communication at the external periphery of the member 34 Wherein a terminal screw 65 forming part of terminal connection 55} has its head 68 received in one open end of housing 52 with the end extremity of the head bearing against the end of the carbon pile opposite from the end having cylinder bear thereon. The screw 66 is insulatingly supported in a rubber sleeve 16 fitted in an opening in member 34 connected with bore 64 in member lit and bears upon a rubber ring 72 fitted in the bottom of bore 64, said sleeve having an annular flange it upon which end connection of conductoris held by a nut l8 threaded on screw (it. The housing 52 has its end extremity, adjacent the open end in which head 58 of screw 66 is received, bear against one outer annular face portion of ring 12.

The housing and its contents are held in assembly in relation to member 24 by a plug 18 threaded into the open end of bore 64 hearing axially inward against one end extremity of insulating housing 52.

An adjustment screw 39 threaded in the plug centrally thereof includes a head 82 received in the open end of the housing adjacent the extrcmity upon which plug it bears has axial bearing engagement of the end face of head Bil there of against one end of coil spring 62, opposite from the end which engages weight 88. The speed control setting of the carbon pile can be varied merely by altering the compressed height of spring it? way of adjustment screw with the screw being accessible for adjustment by way of an opening 84 provided in ring 28 of drum member I2.

With one end of coil Ill connected to a current supply, such as a battery 86, by way of collector ring 44 and brush the other end is grounded by way of conductor 53 connection with the governor, which governor is in turn grounded so as to complete the circuit for the coil.

In a normal governor controlled operation of the clutch ill, with power delivered to drum mem ber i2 and with the coil energized as supplied current from battery 36 by way of engagement of brush it and collector ring 44 and with the coil grounded by way of governor l8, eddy currents are generated between the ring and polar members of the respective drum and rotor members resulting in a rotation of the rotor member.

As the speed of the drum member is increased a proportionate increase in speed of the rotor occurs until the rotor attains a speed at which it is to be governed wherein centrifugal force acts to throw weight radially outward against spring 62 to such an extent as to compress the spring and thus reduce the pressure on the carbon pile. With the pressure on the carbon pile reduced a greater resistance to current how is set up by the carbon pile resulting in the decrease in current flow to coil i6 and consequently a tendency toward reduction in speed of rotor member 14. This current flow control of the coil is maintained just so long as the drum member is rotating at a speed wherein through eddy current generation between it and the rotor member it tends to rotate the rotor member in excess of the speed for which the rotor member is governed. The weight is purposely made of as great a weight as practical and is preferably made of copper, since it is heavier than steel or iron, In making the weight as heavy as practical the carbon pile is not adversely effected by centrifugal force A tending to hold the pile discs together, thereby decreasing the resistance change ratio of the carbon pile.

Through the use of weight the pressure resistance curve of the carbon pile is non-linear wherein centrifugal force at low speeds of rotor member [4 has very little effective current change while at higher speeds, large resistance changes occur when the centrifugal force acts to throw the weight 60 radially outward and thus materially relieve the pressure from the carbon pile.

Although the carbon pile governor disclosed is of specific embodiment and incorporated in an eddy current clutch it is susceptible of structural variation and application without departing from the basic concepts embodied therein and accordingly the invention is to be limited as to the extent indicated by the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. Governing apparatus of the class described comprising a rotary partially magnetic material driving element, a rotary partially magnetic material driven element, means for effecting a magnetic drive between said elements, an electric circuit for energizing the magnetic means, and

a centrifugal force operative governor mounted on the driven element including a tubular housing of insulating material fixedly mounted in the driven element with its axis extending radially of the axis of the driven element, a carbon pile resistance, connected in the circuit, mounted in the tubular housing, a predetermined weight bearing on the carbon pile within the housing radially outwardly thereof, and a spring under load, in the housing radially outwardly of the weight bearing axially upon the weight and serving to pro-load the carbon pile, said carbon pile being grounded by the way of the weight and spring to the driven element.

2. Governing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the tubular housing is fitted in a radially extended bore in the driven element, extending from its open end at the external periphery toward the hub of the driven element, wherein a plug is threaded to the driven element in the open end of the bore, and wherein an adjustment screw is threaded in the plug with one end bearing against the spring and its opposite end extending radially outwardly through the plug.

3. Governing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a terminal post mounted in the driven element has one portion connected to the magnetic means, and another portion disposed in the housing in axial abutting engagement to the carbon pile on the axial end opposite from the weight.

4. Governing apparatus according to claim 3 wherein the weight is made of copper or equivalent weight metal and is effective to resist centrifugal force at low speeds of the driven element such that a very little effective current change occurs.

RALPH L. JAESCHKE.

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